A paranoiac, like a poet, is born, not made.

God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.

The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.

If you were to ask me if I'd ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I'd have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead.

Mystery is the essential element of every work of art.

The Cinema seems to have been invented to express the life of the subconscious, the roots of which penetrate poetry so deeply

I would give my life for a man who is looking for the truth. But I would gladly kill a man who thinks that he has found the truth.

Thank God I'm an atheist.

I can't help feeling that there is no beauty without hope, struggle, and conquest.

Thank God, I am still an atheist.

If someone were to tell me I had twenty years left, and ask me how I'd like to spend them, I'd reply 'Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.'

Words like eyeglasses blur everything that they do not make clear.

A review of summit day photographs will show that I was clothed in the latest, highest quality, high altitude gear, comparable, if not better, than that worn by the other members of our expedition.

Everybody did something. It was very entertaining. We had a lot of fun. Lot of fun. And there was no segregation, that I could see. I never saw any

What a frequency What a voice. I love Bilal. I couldn't imagine a music world without his voice.

I have one thing in my mind. How can I get people to start taking care of themselves? That's all I think about.

Be yourself. Because if people don't like you as you are, they're not going to like you as somebody you're trying to be.

If I weren't a Christian Scientist, and I saw "Trog" advertised on a marquee across the street, I'd think I'd contemplate suicide.

For a long time I thought I was a poet, but that's a high title to claim.

Girl, I got my mind. And what goes on in it. Which is to say, I got me...my lonely is mine.